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The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Roberto Pazzi's papal-election novel from 2001, Conclave.
I am very much looking forward to The Ghost- (etc.) author Robert Harris' own Conclave -- just out in the UK; coming to the US in November; see the Knopf publicity page, get your copy at Amazon.co.uk or pre-order it at Amazon.com -- and I figured this would be good preparation/point of comparison.read more

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